At a friend a few months ago, I was drawing with his son who was to have three years (?).
He told me (in other words): "take a number of pastels in your hand and make circles with it."
What I did ...
few moments later, seeing what I had done, he said, laughing: "you do barbel! You make barbel!"
I said to myself: "Bin there, he asks me to do that and then he laughs and says I am the barbel!
It does not make it clear, but I, immediately after his comment drew a little cat in the right corner of barbel, with three small circles above his head.
I told him: "Well no, it's not barbels. This is because the kitten was too things in his head and it gets all mixed. You see, the red line because he wants to ride. The blue one is the design. The yellow is ... "
Spontaneously, he said:" the worst green because he wants to swim?! "
His eyes lit up.
The barb was now a sense the sense that it would give him.
My friend asked if he wanted to hang in his room and he nods.
A little duct tape and presto! he went in his room hung on the wall and the drawing is still there!
**** A little help and imagination of children takes over. So anything is possible!
As teachers, I think we have a part to play in their awakening to explore avenues which they had perhaps not thought of.
For me, it's part of my goals, my credo.
